Shortlisted Audie Award / Children's for Ages 8-12 2006Notable Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year / Older Readers 2004

The war may be over, but battles rage in every direction...

The town of Wirrawee is emerging from war, slowly. School's back in, Juicy's is open for coffee, farmers are bidding at the cattle sales. Ellie Linton at last gets what she longed for and what she fought for, to be back on the farm with her parents. But it's not the same. A new nation is on the other side of a new border. Suddenly the war is about to explode into Ellie's life again. The effects are devastating. The consequences will change her forever.